The EPI project has 28 partners from 10 European countries, with the goal of making EU achieve independence in HPC chip technologies and HPC infrastructure. 43 of the EPAC1.0 RISC-V test chips were delivered to EPI from GlobalFoundries and initial tests of their operation were successful.
The European Processor Accelerator (EPAC) combines several accelerator technologies specialized for different application areas. Built in a 22nm process, the 1GHz chips have an area of 26.97mm2 with 14 million placeable instances, equivalent to 93m gates, including 991 memory instances.